Gujarat IPS officer Pandiyan discharged in Sohrabuddin case
August 25, 2016
Mumbai:A special CBI court here today discharged Gujarat IPS officer Rajkumar Pandiyan in connection with the alleged fake encounter killing case of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati.
Special CBI judge M B Gosavi discharged Pandiyan on the ground that there was no sanction (permission to prosecute) against him and hence he cannot be prosecuted.
Pandiyan, who is now serving as liaison officer at the Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation in Mumbai was reinstated in 2014. He was earlier placed under suspension in 2007 after his arrest in the encounter case.
The court has so far discharged BJP president Amit Shah, Rajasthan Home Minister Gulabchand Kataria, Rajasthan-based businessman Vimal Patni, former Gujarat Police chief P C Pande, Additional Director General of Police Geeta Johri, Gujarat Police officer Abhay Chudasama, Gujarat Police official N K Amin, Yashpal Chudasama and Ajay Patel (both senior office-bearers at the Ahmedabad District Co-Operative Bank) from the case.
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